A Multi-agent Organization Approach for Developing Social-Technical Software of Autonomous Robots

• 作者: Sen Yang Shuo Yang Xinjun Mao Yin Chen
• 来源期刊: 国际计算机前沿大会会议论文集
• 学科: 社会科学
• 关键词: AUTONOMOUS ROBOT MULTI-AGENT ORGANIZATION Environment
• 年，卷（期）: 2016,（1）
• 页码范围: 9-11
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: C5

摘要

Software of autonomous robot is a complex physical and social technical system that is context-aware, autonomous and capable of self-management to achieve tasks. It typically consists of a large amount of autonomous entities and interactions. To develop such system needs high-level metaphors and effective mechanisms independent of physical and technical details of various robots.The paper presents a multi-agent organization approach to developing autonomous robot software that is modelled as social organization, in which each agent is bound to specific roles with specified responsibilities that are tightly related with robot’s characteristics and tasks. These agents form diverse organization structure and patterns to achieve flexible cooperation in order to achieve assigned tasks. The paper details multi-agent organization model of autonomous robot software and various roles in the model. We have implemented a framework called AutoRobot that realizes the approach and supports the development and running of autonomous robot software. A case is studied by using NAO robot to show the effectiveness of our proposed approach.